Ping your sitemaps to the major search engines
Let the major search engines know about updates to your site by pasting the links below in your browser address bar and substituting the address of your sitemap.
- http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=WWW.YOUR-SITE.COM/SITEMAP.XML
Microsoft Bing
- http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=WWW.YOUR-SITE.COM/SITEMAP.XML
Yahoo
- http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=WWW.YOUR-SITE.COM/SITEMAP.XML
Ask.com
- http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=WWW.YOUR-SITE.COM/SITEMAP.XML
Moreover
- http://api.moreover.com/ping?sitemap=WWW.YOUR-SITE.COM/SITEMAP.XML
Then just hit enter and the engine will be notified of your new sitemap.
You can also resubmit website sitemaps from within the Webmaster Tools section of each Search engine.
Do you know of any others that should be on this list? Comment it below.
Which Search provider gives the WORST support to webmasters ?
Most search providers offer a range of tools to webmasters to use to submit / monitor their inclusion in the engines index. The question is ‘Are these tools any good?’. Do they provide accurate info ? and, when things go wrong, how easy is it to sort out any problems?
Pingbacks as the new link exchange.
Webmasters are constantly looking to exchange links with other websites. Most turn to companies like Link Exchange and use this service to find other like minded webmasters and, of course, this is all in the name of google rankings. With the rise of social networks (in particular blogs) this option may well be replaced by pingbacks.
“A pingback is one of three types of linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, or referring to their articles. Some weblog software, such as Movable Type, Serendipity, WordPress and Telligent Community, support automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article can be pinged when the article is published.
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